Porous Ionic Liquid Ion Source fabrication refinements and variable beam energy experiments

45th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Courtney, Daniel G ^a   Lozano, Paulo C ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABS PLASTIC; BEAM CURRENTS; BEAM ENERGIES; CONSTANT POWER; EMISSION CURRENT; EMITTER GEOMETRY; EMITTER TIPS; FABRICATION PROCESS; FLAT STRIPS; IONIC LIQUID ION SOURCES; MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; POROUS EMITTER; SPECIFIC IMPULSE; THRUSTER EFFICIENCY; TUNGSTEN SUBSTRATE;

ABS RESINS; EXPERIMENTS; FABRICATION; ION SOURCES; IONIC CONDUCTION; IONIC LIQUIDS; PROPULSION; TUNGSTEN;

IONS;

EID: 77957843960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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